Tyler Simpson

Tyler Simpson
Simpson in Blacktown City (2009)
Personnel
Surname	Tyler John Simpson
birthday	August 28, 1985
place of birth	Sydney ,  Australia
date of death	May 26, 2011
Place of death	Sydney ,  Australia
size	198 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
	Gladesville-Hornsby
	APIA Leichhardt Tigers
2003-2004	Northern Spirit
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2004	Dinamo zenith Yerevan	3 (0)
2004	Northern Tigers	3 (1)
2004-2005	St. George Saints	5 (0)
2005-2006	Queensland Roar	4 (0)
2006	Perth Glory	1 (0)
2007	Sydney Olympic
2007-2008	Perth Glory	14 (0)
2008-2011	Blacktown City	51 (3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2006	Australia U-23
1 Only league games are given.

Tyler John Simpson (born August 28, 1985 in Sydney , † May 26, 2011 ) was an Australian football player . The defender played for Queensland Roar and Perth Glory in the Australian A-League between 2005 and 2008 and was under contract with Blacktown City at the time of his death . His twin brother Jordan Simpson is also a professional footballer.

Career

Simpson played 2003/04 for Northern Spirit in the youth league of the National Soccer League and then had a guest appearance in Armenia at Dinamo-Zenit Yerevan . After his return to Australia he played with the Northern Tigers in the New South Wales Winter Super League , the second highest division of the state of New South Wales and in the 2004/05 season with the St. George Saints in the NSW Premier League . In 2005 he signed, like his brother Jordan, a professional contract with the A-League club Queensland Roar and completed four appearances in the top division of Australia. In February 2006, he was invited to the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra for a screening course for the Olympic selection and, like his twin brother, took part in the “Spring Cup” in Vietnam with the selection two months later. Both received no contract with Roar beyond the 2005/06 season .

In August 2006, Simpson signed a one-month short-term contract with Perth Glory to replace the injured Bobby Despotovski and came to a league assignment. He then played for some time at Sydney Olympic before he was signed again by Perth to replace the injured David Tarka , his brother was also under contract in Perth in the 2007/08 season . After neither of them received a contract extension beyond the end of the season, they probably ventured to Europe in early 2008, but at an unnamed Cypriot club, the signed contracts were declared invalid on arrival and the brothers threatened to return to Australia. The Australian players' union sought compensation for the two players from the FIFA Dispute Settlement Chamber . Since March 2008 he played with the Blacktown City Demons (since 2009 Blacktown City) in the New South Wales Premier League , in 2010 he was one of the top performers in winning the league championship.

Simpson committed suicide in May 2011. The Australian Olympic team (U-23) wore black ribbon in his honor in the friendly against Japan on June 1, 2011 .

Web links

• Tyler Simpson in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ footballnsw.com.au: Tyler Simpson: 1985-2011 (May 30, 2011)
2. ↑ ozemail.com.au: NATIONAL YOUTH LEAGUE 2003-04 and where they were over the off-season
3. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Tyler Simpson Remembered (March 30, 2011)
4. ↑ footballwa.net: OLYMPIC HOPEFULS TAKE FIRST STEPS TOWARDS BEIJING (Feb. 5, 2006)
5. ↑ footballwa.net: OLYROOS NARROWLY BEATEN TO SPRING CUP (April 20, 2006)
6. ↑ footballwa.net: DESPOTOVSKI FACES MONTH ON SIDELINES (17 Aug 2006)
7. ↑ pfa.net.au: PFA Recovers Pay from Cypriot Club for Jordan and Tyler Simpson (Feb. 8, 2010)
8. ↑ footballaustralia.com.au: The Superman Effect (April 11, 2012) ( Memento of April 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ au.fourfourtwo.com: Let's Help End These Tragedies, FFA (November 28, 2011)
10. ↑ footballnsw.com.au: Olyroos to honor Tyler Simpson (June 1, 2011)